I’m from Bineshi’s bloodline. That’s Bill Baker if you don’t speak Ojibwemowin.* Ni migizi dodem.** I’m from sitting on green boxes on 6-mile corner, watching cars go by. Sometimes their four doors didn’t match. I’m from Packer games on Sundays, Greyhound trips for the holidays, and Easter baskets with Karla. I’m from women with the same last name and a father none of us knew. I’m from the woods; northern. […]
Benito Gutierrez | La cadena
Thirty-six-year-old Angel Guerra took a long pull from his cigarette and leaned back against the parking pylon in front of Pete’s Market, one foot tucked up behind him, the other planted securely on the ground. He exhaled slowly, allowing the smoke to envelop the sides of his face, up past his ball cap dissolving into the night sky. Bathed in a dim, fluorescent light with intermittent bursts of neon red […]
Free at Last | Movies You Might’ve Missed
Serving Life takes viewers inside Louisiana’s maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. With such long sentences, 85% of inmates will never return to their communities or live in the outside world. They will grow old and die in Angola. To deal with that reality, warden Burl Cain in 1997 created an extraordinary hospice program to care for dying inmates. The program is […]
Free at Last | Lessons learned behind bars
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.” – Angela Y. Davis “I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates […]
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